"I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things ..."

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Hanif Kureishi

#Depression Quotes #Baby Quotes #Song Quotes

“The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc
“You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.”
“Change is not an event, its a process.”
“The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.”

Source : Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”
“Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.”
“We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.”

Source : "Interview with Roscoe Bartlett on Peak Oil". Interview with David Room, www.resilience.org. May 3, 2005.
“It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.”
“Blest is that government where no art thrives.”

Source : Thomas Nashe (2006). “The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works”, p.209, Penguin UK

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